doll house
"A Dolls Houseˇexploded like a bomb into contemporary lifeˇending not in reconciliation but in inexorable calamity. ... "For whatever ones opinion of A Dolls House as a play may be, there can be no question of its startling unconventionality. ... Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, was unconventional in its themes and in the way in which they were presented. ... " In Act 3 of A Dolls House, Nora realises that over the eight years of marriage to her husband, Torvald Helmer, she had never talked with him frankly and equally about anything serious. ... A Dolls House differed from other plays because the ending was open. ... In a house like that, every breath that the children take is filled with the germs of evil," he is unaware that Nora is suffering from guilt because she has lied about the borrowed money.